Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

- Bernanos, Georges

Best Quotes about Faith

The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Pascal, Blaise

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Spalding, John Lancaster

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Rogers, Adrian

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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

18.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.